I’m not aware of such schools, but if they do exist, they must be in great disguise, because the government would not allow such schools to be. At least in my country, Egypt, there aren’t such schools. And if any tried to be formed, they would be closed down immediately, and their owners sent to the court.

Actually, the countries that are islamic-goverened are very few. Among them is Saudi Arabia, Mauritania, Iran, and Pakistan. I think only these are islamic-goverened. All other Arab countries separate between religion and government. In my country, Egypt, there are Egyptian Christians and Jews living among Muslims in peace.

As to the narrow-mindness that you think Muslims have, I think, whatever the religion is, there are those who are open-minded, and those who are not. Take me for example. I’m a Muslims Arab, living in an Arabic country, yet I openly talk with non-muslims, like you, and I do have many friends who are not Muslims. It’s a matter of personal, genetic, and social factors.

For instance, when I was in the elementary school, I had a female teacher, who would not allow a Christian colleague to stay with us in the Islamic class. She was racist, and I fully agree about that, because even Islam itself tells us to be kind and neutral to all others, whatever their religion is, as long as they are kind and peaceful to us.

I hope I’ve cleared up some points for you, and please don’t hesitate to come back for more interesting discussion.

I employ many islamic people and they cannot talk about political / economic / and socal issues with bringing up the Koran. They are smart, educated and hard working but it seems to me that their thoughts are one-sided so I can only believe alternate views in the islamic world are shunned with violence. they cannot step outside themselves and look down with reflection and see the atrocites that exist.

You cannot justify this by saying it happens in the US too. I am not addressing that. I am asking about Islam only.

Your question is nearly the same as that of MuslimSBPastTense’s in reply no. 53. Please read it, then read my reply to it (no. 54).

Besides, saying that Islam is exclusively a religion where so many ‘bad’ adherents and followers are present is not fully correct. Nearly all religions have bad followers. There are Christians who’ve never been to a church. There are Christian serial-killers. There are Christian baby-smotherers. And by ‘Christian’ I don’t mean a devout Christian, but someone whose religion is stated as that in his identity card. This is exactly the case with bad muslims, bad jews,..etc

Actually, there are a lot of educational programs going on currently in the Arabic media that show how bad those terrorists are. There are many channels like: Iqraa’, MBC, Al-Jazeera,..etc, but they’re all in arabic and transmitted through satellites ArabSat and NileSat, so westerners are not aware of them.

Westerners also always forget that there are 1.4 billion muslims who mainly live in the Middle East, divided among about 25 countries, constituting the second largest religion in the world. So, it’s not a single bordered country where terrorism could be controlled easily. Terrorists could be anywhere within this huge nation.

The Muslim nation is like any other nation. There are good people and bad people. There are peaceful people and terrorists. America, just for example, has its own american terrorists among its own good american people.

I have some questions though.

Why don’t more muslims speak out about the injustice the terrorists have brought to the religion? I don’t see demonistrations in the streets saying stop the violence. I don’t see clerics on TV denoucing the violence. Do muslims care?

If I am involved in a group of people and we share common beliefs, then someone makes me look bad, what am I too do other than stop them. Why aren’t the good muslims stopping the bad ones from ruining the islamic image? If they are not, then are all muslims terrorists?

What about the madreasses in Pakastan teaching hate to children. Why do muslims allow this to go on?

There is a quote in it that I’ve really liked; it defines how some anti-muslims really are:

American journalist Stephen Schwartz has defined Islamophobia as the condemnation of the entirety of Islam and its history as extremist, denying the existence of a moderate Muslim majority, regarding Islam as a problem for the world, treating conflicts involving Muslims as necessarily their own fault, insisting that Muslims make changes to their religion, and inciting war against Islam as a whole.

Thank you again.

Thank you.